French -age developed from Latin relational adjectives in -aticus that were by and by nominalized, thereby incorporating the former head noun as a semantic constituent. In this article, it is argued that the Modern French -age derivation originated from the (re-)association of a semantically vacuous formative and an abstract semantic feature. This semantic feature gradually emerged through abstraction from the existing concrete derivatives and, once established, has determined the range of possible interpretations of newly coined formations up to this day. The most important result of the analysis is that, apart from a structural reanalysis of the Latin nominalized relational -aticus adjectives, French -age did not undergo any meaning change at all, the stability of its meaning being due to the abovementioned continuous interplay between the abstract semantic feature and the usage of the various concrete -age nominalizations.

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与用法有关的转变与语法变化之间的法国时代的历时发展

法语年龄是从拉丁语中的-aticus形容词发展而来的，该拉丁形容词是按名词化的，并且被名词化了，从而将前头名词作为语义成分。在本文中，论证了现代法国时代派生起源于语义空虚形成性和抽象语义特征的（重新）关联。这种语义特征是通过从现有的具体派生词中抽象出来而逐渐出现的，并且一旦确定，就已经确定了直到今天为止对新造词形式的可能解释的范围。分析的最重要结果是，除了对拉丁名词化的关系式-地名形容词进行结构上的重新分析之外，法语-年龄根本没有发生任何意义上的变化，